Syed Fahim Munaim, chief executive officer and chief editor at Maasranga Television, has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 62. Also former executive editor of The Daily Star, Munaim breathed his last at his residence in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday suggests that cricketer Mustafizur Rahman should take required precautions to stretch his career.

The government plans to spend $8.25 million on legal assistance over a span of 15 years to take out patents on jute genomes decoded by Bangladeshi scientists.

Bangladeshi “tree man” Abul Bajandar was given Tk 6 lakh to build a house of his own by a doctor who has been treating him at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for the last four months.

Mobile service providers have started the process to block more than two and half crore active mobile subscriptions as of zero hour today, for the users' failure to complete biometric re-registration as per government decree.

Over 15 lakh people in Bangladesh are living in modern slavery, with some 44 percent of the population being vulnerable to the scourge, says a new report.

A criminal gang led by a Pakistani citizen had carried out the attack on the Ansar barracks inside the Rohingya refugee camp at Nayapara of Teknaf on May 13, an accused told a local court yesterday.

With a flower crown on his head, Mustafizur Rahman was flashing his trademark boyish smile to every flash of camera from a

A Singapore court yesterday convicted four Bangladeshi workers, detained in Singapore under the Internal Security Act (ISA), of financing terrorism.

Six members of banned militant outfits Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansarullah Bangla Team were handed death sentences by a Dhaka court yesterday for the grisly bank heist in Ashulia in April last year that left eight people dead.

The size of the upcoming budget may go up by 30 percent from the current fiscal year's revised outlay as the government seeks to fast-track the giant projects and complete one or two in its current tenure. The planned Tk 340,600 crore budget for fiscal 2016-17 would be 17.4 percent of the gross domestic product. In terms of share in the GDP, the planned budget is almost the same as the budget of fiscal 2015-16.

Brothers Union are set to rope in Nepalese coach Bal Gopal Maharjan with a hope of achieving good results in the upcoming Federation Cup and the Bangladesh Premier League.

BFF sends Ahmed Sayed Al Fatah, its head of marketing and personal secretary to the president, to Tajikistan accompanying the football team, designating him as the media manager of the team for this tour.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is mulling over providing Mustafizur Rahman, who left for Satkhira last night, with a long leave in order to help him recover from home sickness.

This second generation X1 is a mini crossover. It is also the smallest from BMW, sold in Bangladesh with the most interesting engine for tech geeks.

At least seven people, including two siblings, suffered bullet injuries as the president of a high school managing committee

Farmers yesterday staged a demonstration in Rangpur city, demanding that the government immediately buy paddy, rice and wheat directly from them during the ongoing procurement drive across the country.

The primary and mass education ministry decides in principle to scrap Class-V terminal examination as the primary level was elevated to class-VIII.

Bangladesh Jewellers’ Association (BAJUS) threatens to close down all jewellery shops indefinitely if their three-point demand is not entitled in the upcoming annual budget.

Bangladeshi “Tree man” Abul Bajandar, who is now undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), is given financial aid to build a house for his own.